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Embedded Software Development in Visual Studio Code

March 10, 2022 Mar 10, 2022 03/10/22

Marc Goodner

In this post we will walk through the new Visual Studio Code Embedded Tools extension. We'll show how to acquire embedded tool dependencies with vcpkg then edit, build, deploy, and debug an Azure RTOS ThreadX project highlighting the new peripheral register and RTOS object views.

Embedded Software Development in Visual Studio

December 6, 2021 Dec 6, 2021 12/6/21

Marc Goodner

In this post we will walk you through Visual Studio installation of the embedded workload, how to acquire embedded tool dependencies with vcpkg, then demonstrate edit, build, deploy, and debugging directly in Visual Studio with new peripheral register and RTOS object views. We will demonstrate all of this with an Azure RTOS ThreadX project.

Bootstrap your dev environment with vcpkg artifacts

December 6, 2021 Dec 6, 2021 12/6/21

Marc Goodner

Updated May 11, 2022: Using your own registry section revised to reflect metadata format changes. We are happy to announce a new experience for acquiring artifacts using vcpkg. We define an artifact as a set of packages required for a working development environment. Examples of relevant packages include compilers, linkers, debuggers, build...

Build and Debug C++ with WSL 2 Distributions and Visual Studio 2022

July 14, 2021 Jul 14, 2021 07/14/21

Erika Sweet

Visual Studio 2022 introduces a native WSL 2 toolset for C++ development. This toolset is available now in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.0 Preview 2. WSL 2 is the new, recommended version of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) architecture that provides better Linux file system performance, GUI support, and full system call compatibility. ...

New Safety Rules in C++ Code Analysis

October 2, 2020 Oct 2, 2020 10/2/20

Hwi-sung Im

In Visual Studio version 16.8 Preview 3, we are adding a few safety rules to C++ Code Analysis that can find some common mistakes, which can lead to bugs ranging from simple broken features to costly security vulnerabilities. These new rules are developed around issues discovered in production software via security reviews and...

Initial Support For C++20 Ranges

July 15, 2020 Jul 15, 2020 07/15/20

Casey Carter

We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2019 version 16.6 contains the first user-visible pieces of C++20 Ranges support. We’ve been working on support machinery for a few releases now, but in this release the tip of the iceberg has finally broken the surface of the water and there are now some tools available for users. The ...

Visual Studio Code C++ extension: May 2020 update

May 14, 2020 May 14, 2020 05/14/20

Julia Reid

The May 2020 update of the Visual Studio Code C++ extension is now available. This latest release offers brand new features—ARM and ARM64 IntelliSense modes and C++ language-specific code folding—along with a bunch of enhancements and bug fixes. To find out more about all the changes, check out our release notes on GitHub. ARM and ARM64 ...

AVX-512 Auto-Vectorization in MSVC

February 27, 2020 Feb 27, 2020 02/27/20

Rui Zhang

In Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 we added AVX-512 support to the auto-vectorizer of the MSVC compiler. This post will show some examples and help you enable it in your projects. What is the auto vectorizer? The compiler’s auto vectorizer analyzes loops in the user’s source code and generates vectorized code for a vectorization target ...

CMake, Linux targeting, and IntelliSense improvements in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2

January 24, 2020 Jan 24, 2020 01/24/20

Erika Sweet

Visual Studio’s native support for CMake allows you to target both Windows and Linux from the comfort of a single IDE. Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2 introduces several new features specific to cross-platform development, including: File copy optimizations for CMake projects targeting a remote ...

Improvements to Accuracy and Performance of Linux IntelliSense

January 10, 2020 Jan 10, 2020 01/10/20

Erika Sweet

This blog post was written by Paul Maybee, a Principal Software Engineer on the C++ Cross-Platform Team. Accurate C++ IntelliSense requires access to the C++ headers that are referenced by C++ source files. For Linux scenarios the headers referenced by a Linux MSBuild or CMake project are copied to Windows by Visual Studio from the Linux ...

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Bootstrap your dev environment with vcpkg artifacts

Build and Debug C++ with WSL 2 Distributions and Visual Studio 2022

New Safety Rules in C++ Code Analysis

Initial Support For C++20 Ranges

Visual Studio Code C++ extension: May 2020 update

AVX-512 Auto-Vectorization in MSVC

CMake, Linux targeting, and IntelliSense improvements in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview 2

Improvements to Accuracy and Performance of Linux IntelliSense

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